Lyndon B. Johnson Quotes

I think we need strength. I think we also need somebody that can be a cheerleader. He's been a great divider in this country. I think race relations now are as bad as they've ever been. I guess they have, statistically, the worst they've been in 18 years. I don't know what 18 years means, how do they determine that, but I can tell you they're bad and they haven't been this bad in a long time. And we have somebody that really was in a position to do just the opposite, but this tremendous divide in this country. I see it, everybody sees it.

Even if you want to conjure up some things, they are not reason enough to rip America apart, particularly under the guise of fairness or whatever. It's destructive.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

America is a place where we all come together. It is a place of consensus.

I think America is going to have to think through whether it wants to uplift the political dialogue or advance an approach that divides and, frankly, can lead to violence.

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

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Our country will be stabilized, with all key establishments in society working in unity with full awareness among Thais of their duties and responsibilities.

I think a lot of folks are beginning to feel that the forces that are tearing us apart in this country are stronger than the forces that tie us together. I don't believe that.

In our own country, you can't divide people.

We don't need more divisive language or programs and policies that are going to tear the fabric of the nation apart.

We dream of nation-building. We cannot achieve this by fomenting social divisions.

As a country, we still have a lot of work to do. We need to agree on some basic rules for civil discourse.

The one thing that is distinctive about America historically has been the fact that we are all able to engage in public discourse without the political becoming personal.

Herb? Herb is the healing of the nation, seen? Once you smoke herb, you all must think alike. Now if you thinking alike, dat mean we 'pon the same track. If we 'pon the same track, that mean we gonna unite.

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

I am on the side of pluralistic societies, and I will do whatever I can - by the best means available and any means necessary - to protect spaces that encourage open communication between people.

The ideals that bind us together are as old as our nation, but so are the forces that pull us apart.

One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful.

I think we need to find more reasons to unify rather than divide each other.

Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people.